facility

English

Etymology

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From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Middle French facilité, and its source, (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin facilitās.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fəˈsɪlɪti/

• Audio (US)

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ɪlɪti

Noun

facility (countable and uncountable, plural facilities)

1. The fact of being easy, or easily done; absence of difficulty, simplicity. [from 16th c.]
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2. Dexterity of speech or action; skill, talent. [from 16th c.]

   The facility she shows in playing the violin is unrivalled.

3. The physical means or contrivances to make something (especially a public service) possible; the required equipment, infrastructure, location etc. [from 19th c.]

   Transport facilities in Bangkok are not sufficient to prevent frequent traffic collapses during rush hour.

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     As though on an incendiary rampage, the fires systematically devoured the contents of Edison's headquarters and facilities.

4. An institution specially designed for a specific purpose, such as incarceration, military use, or scientific experimentation.
5. (Canada, US, in the plural) A toilet. [from 20th c.]
6. (Scotland, law) A condition of mental weakness short of idiocy, but enough to make a person easily persuaded to do something against their better interest.
7. (dated) Affability.

Derived terms

• correctional facility

Translations

fact of being easy

• Danish: mulighed (da) c
• Finnish: helppous (fi)
• French: facilité (fr) f
• Galician: facilidade (gl) f
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• Portuguese: facilidade (pt) f
• Russian: лёгкость (ru) f (ljóxkostʹ), простота́ (ru) f (prostotá)
• Ukrainian: ле́гкість (léhkistʹ)

dexterity, skill

• Bulgarian: леснина (bg) f (lesnina), лекота (bg) f (lekota)
• Danish: færdighed c
• Dutch: aanleg (nl) m, gemak (nl) n
• Finnish: taito (fi), taitavuus (fi)
• French: facilité (fr) f
• German: Leichtigkeit (de) f
• Irish: éascaíocht f
• Italian: facilità (it) f
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• Kyrgyz: жөндөмдүүлүк (ky) (jöndömdüülük), зээндүүлүк (ky) (zeendüülük), жарамдуулук (ky) (jaramduuluk), ийкемдүүлүк (ky) (iykemdüülük)
• Luxembourgish: Facilitéit f
• Portuguese: facilidade (pt) f
• Romanian: facilitate (ro)
• Russian: ги́бкость (ru) f (gíbkostʹ), ло́вкость (ru) f (lóvkostʹ)
• Spanish: facilidad (es) f
• Ukrainian: умі́ння (umínnja)

physical means of doing something

• Arabic: مَرَافِق pl (marāfiq), مُنْشَأَة (ar) f (munšaʔa)
• Bulgarian: приспособления (bg) pl (prisposoblenija), оборудване (bg) n (oborudvane)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 設備／设备 (zh) (shèbèi), 设备 (zh) (shèbèi)

• Danish: facilitet c, funktion c (om maskine el.lign.)
• Dutch: inrichting (nl) f, voorziening (nl) f, faciliteit (nl) f
• Finnish: laitos (fi), fasiliteetti, mukavuudet pl
• French: infrastructure (fr) f, installation (fr) f, centre (fr) m, pôle (fr) m, matériel (fr), équipement (fr)
• German: Einrichtung (de) f, Vorrichtung (de) f
• Italian: struttura f, mezzo m, strumento m
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• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: fasilitet m

  Nynorsk: fasilitet m

• Portuguese: instalação (pt) m
• Russian: обору́дование (ru) n (oborúdovanije), приспособле́ния (ru) n pl (prisposoblénija), аппарату́ра (ru) f (apparatúra), зда́ния (ru) n pl (zdánija) (buildings), учрежде́ния (ru) n pl (učreždénija) (institutions)
• Scottish Gaelic: goireas m
• Serbo-Croatian: infrastruktura (sh), uređaji m pl
• Spanish: instalación (es) m, material (es)
• Ukrainian: обла́днання (obládnannja), апарату́ра (uk) (aparatúra), інфраструкту́ра (infrastruktúra)